Screenshot from the Wayback Machine of the Cult of the Dead Cow website in 2011.

Screenshot from the Wayback Machine of the Cult of the Dead Cow website in 2011.

Early super low res graphics version of the Cult of the Dead Cow zine.

Early super low res graphics version of the Cult of the Dead Cow zine.

Detail map of Brooklyn, New York, United States Overview map of Brooklyn, New York, United States

A: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Perhaps the first Underground "Ezine"

6/1984

In June 1984 three BBS SysOps—"Grandmaster Ratte" (aka Swamp Ratte'), Franken Gibe, and Sid Vicious—founded the Cult of the Dead Cow, also known as cDc Communications, a computer hacker and DIY media organization. They published what may be the first underground ezine, also known as the Cult of the Dead Cow

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